Software Engineer - App Stores

Canonical Sevilla La Nueva, Community of Madrid, Spain

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets.

Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in cloud, data science, AI, engineering, and IoT initiatives.

Canonical is founder-led, profitable, and growing, with a distributed workforce and limited office-based roles.

This opportunity is with Canonical's Store team, which develops and operates a large system of backend services powering the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces.

Our services are built primarily in Python, with some Golang.

We face exciting challenges including scaling production architecture, expanding the range of software delivered through the system powering our marketplaces, and enhancing offerings for IoT and large Enterprise solutions.

If you value clean APIs, shipping, and automated tests as key to velocity and reliability, you’ll fit in well.

• Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team.
  
  
• Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang).
  
  
• Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale.
  
  
• Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers.
  
  
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions.
  
  
• Work remotely with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.
  
  

• You have demonstrated professional proficiency in developing public-facing APIs and web applications using Python.
  
  
• You have a broad technology base but favour backend code and infrastructure.
  
  
• You know your way around relational and non-relational databases and can effectively design data models that perform well, and tune queries to access them.
  
  
• You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
  
  
• You have demonstrated strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree.
  
  
• You love technology and working with a diverse set of talented people.
  
  
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
  
  
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.
  
  

Canonical is a growing, international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu—the world’s #1 cloud operating system.

Our mission is to realise the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organisations.

Our services help businesses reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance security with Ubuntu.

Canonical is global, remote-first, open source, with 700 professionals across 50 countries.

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source.

We recruit on a global basis and set a high standard for joining the company.

Most colleagues work from home, and we operate with a remote-by-default model.

Working here challenges you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer.

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination.

Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.

Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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